The Duchess is a popular trainer and also a ūrelatively inexpensive four-seat twin for per- ūsonal flying.

Mix a beautiful late spring evening, a nicely kept light twin and a couple of flying friends and you’ll have a recipe that makes most pilots salivate at the possibilities. Though flying is often about transportation or a paycheck, I’d bet most pilots say the enjoyment of flight is what started them down that airway – at least in the beginning.

Idyllic weather over picturesque scenery creates a thing of beauty no poet can conquer and no painter can put to shame. Flying in those conditions has inspired many to take the road less traveled, but on rare occasions those inspired have been moved to follow a dangerous course on which…